Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 2 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 3 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 4 | She turned back , and only then remembered that someone had started the engines . |
| 5 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 6 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 7 | The day after that , a man came in and very loudly said that he had no time for God , but he wanted a colouring book for the children of his Greek neighbours , to show his acceptance of them . |